incommodity
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At this particular time, by reason of the incommodity of the house, the rite was performed at the door of the domicile.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Peter Charles Remondino
In so far, however, as Hawthorne suffered the penalties of celebrity at the hands of intrusive fellow-citizens, he was soon to escape from this honourable incommodity.
From Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) by Henry James
What a clap of thunder to Excellency Hanbury; his masterpiece found suddenly a superfluity, an incommodity!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Thomas Carlyle
He could cease to think of them only when he ceased to think of his loss and privation, and the days had as yet but scantily lightened the weight of this incommodity.
From The American by Henry James
Howbeit, I purpose now to consider first imprisonment as imprisonment alone, without any other incommodity besides.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
I finde it lesse void of incommodities and crosses than vertue.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
Wherein, by occasion of the religious death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury, the incommodities of the soule in this life, and her exaltation in the next, are contemplated.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
Pigs, Spanish dollars, and Norway rats, are not the only commodities and incommodities which have performed the circumnavigation, and are to be found wherever European ships have touched.
From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Henry Morley
Private M'Splae is the possessor, we will say, of a pair of flat feet, or arched insteps, or other military incommodities, and his regulation boots do not fit him.
From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
As soon as my incommodities allowed me to think of past occurrences, I failed not to inquire what had become of the odd little guest whom Hollingsworth had been the medium of introducing among us.
From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
